I'm at the halfway point for a 3 week long project I'm doing with my team where we're coming up with ideas and visualizing the future of Yahoo! Local and Maps. Sounds rather im-porr-tahnt wouldn't you say? It's interesting because coming up with solutions and also communicating them in a concise way turns out to be way more taxing than doing the actual day to day design work. Who knew thinking could be so draining? I feel like in a week and a half of doing this, I've spent more mental energy than I have in the past few months combined. I need to do this kind of thing more in my spare time on my numerous side projects.